Chapter 12: The Mysterious Brick Wall
I thought to myself, is this seal really a translation that was specially attached so that we could read it? But the thought of meeting him, several of us couldn't help but tremble, could it be that he was still alive in it, thinking about the impossibility, we don't scare ourselves, even if we meet, then he is just a big dumpling at most, if he really meets, it will be a matter of time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I returned the silk book to Abu, he took the silk book and laughed twice and put the silk book into his pocket, thinking that this silk book was also obtained by him regardless of the danger of his life, it should be given to him, there is nothing wrong with having someone like Abu by his side, after all, this inverted fight is a chore, there is someone who can bring us some joy, from time to time to do something stupid, we can borrow a smile, not to mention the skill, I laughed myself when I thought of this.
Now we probably know that this tomb should be in the Spring and Autumn Period, as for what kind of witch king he is, there is no concept, with the psychology of going with the flow we walked down the stairs, but what is certain is that this witch king does have certain skills, the mechanism in this tomb, the cave design, and the gossip lock and figurines, if there is no accident, maybe it is not designed by others at all, but himself.
If this is the case, we have to be a little more careful, just based on the matter of the Gu planted in the figurines, I know that the human figurines may have existed long before Qin Shi Huang built the Qin Tomb, but as for this Gu technique, I really haven't heard of it appear so early, and this witch king just understands witchcraft, which may be inseparable.
Besides, the figurines are still made of living people, if that is the case, this witch spirit king is not necessarily a good stubble, then we can only half-believe the content of the silk book, and we must not take it all seriously, maybe it is just a way for tomb robbers.
After understanding the identity of the tomb owner, we are also a little prepared in our hearts, as for his prophecy of meeting us, I still don't want to think about it, I panic when I think about it, lest I don't have the courage to continue to follow the inverted bucket, and the second uncle they joked not to say, this inverted bucket is what I want to follow, at this time to retreat and not lose the face of the ancestors, and the way back is also dangerous, even the stone gate has long been sealed, and I have to find another way to get out.
Of course, there is no way to return the same way, at the moment we are most interested in the underground palace in front of us, we walked tighter, we followed one by one, and soon walked the stairs, this staircase is relatively long, if you roll down it's really hard to say, it's easier to break an arm or leg or something.
Fortunately, there is light in this underground palace, there is no underground palace under the stairs as we imagined, but a stone bridge, opposite the stone bridge is a brick wall, the stone bridge is empty, like a cliff, we don't even know how deep the stone bridge is, this project does not look like a king's tomb at all, and even more than a prince's tomb, it can already be said to be the scale of the emperor.
There are pillars on both sides of the stone bridge, and there are bronze vessels on each pillar, and each bronze vessel has a flame burning in it, and the color is relatively green.
The length of this bridge must be at least two hundred meters, because there will be one pillar on both sides of the stone bridge every one or two meters, so this stone bridge looks so long, there is nothing to see under the stone bridge, and the fire generated by these white phosphorus can only illuminate the area around the stone bridge at most, which feels like the day above the stone bridge and the night under the stone bridge, separated by two worlds.
My father stood there and pondered for a while, afraid that he would find something, so he picked up a few pieces of gravel from the stone bridge and threw them under the stone bridge.
"Master, second brother, there's the sound of water down here." My dad shouted.
When the second uncle heard my father say this, he also picked up a piece of gravel on the ground and threw it down, because this stone was relatively large, and the sound of splashing water could be clearly heard.
The second uncle was also surprised: "This tomb ......" but couldn't say for a long time, as for why there is water under the stone bridge, we don't know, listening to the sound of the stone falling, the water doesn't seem to be too deep, but it's dark under the bridge, and we have no way of knowing, maybe it's the reservoir under the tomb of the witch spirit king.
The only thing I can think of is the village under the mountain when I first arrived at Yueming Mountain, there are many sinkholes in the village, and the formation of the sinkhole is caused by the loss of groundwater, but this place in Shanxi is relatively dry, if the groundwater really goes to some underground river, it is relatively rare, then it cannot be ruled out that there is an underground river under the stone bridge.
The underground river is still reasonable in Guangxi and other regions, but when it comes to Shanxi, if it is not for human factors, it is really a bit unexplainable, the general underground river is formed by the groundwater dissolution along the fissures under the limestone area, and the water in this tomb may be a mountain-piercing underground river.
The water surface of the underground river is basically the same height as the surface of the ground, if this is the case, it means that we are already at least at the bottom of Yueming Mountain, or even further down, after all, we have already descended two or three steps of stairs, there are too many unknown things in this tomb, and we dare not draw too many conclusions for the time being.
I didn't dare to look at the bottom of the bridge, for fear that one would fall down without paying attention, and the height and darkness made me dizzy when I was sober, and I retreated.
"Tianming, Abu, take out the shovel and chisel." The second uncle said at this time.
"Huh? What are you doing now? Tianming didn't understand.
"Don't you see the wall in front of you? How to unload it without a chisel or shovel, it's really a human day pus (low IQ), it's hard to describe! Abu started sarcastically again on the side, put his hand in his trouser pocket, grabbed some sand, and threw it into the air and blew it, and my father and I laughed too.
"Don't worry about grinding your mouth, take it out quickly, let's move quickly, this brick wall will be demolished and wasted time." The second uncle's mouth moved, and he had already walked towards the brick wall opposite the stone bridge.
Tianming and Abu took out the chisel or something and walked over, the backpack was thrown to facilitate the work, in order to help them remove the door wall as soon as possible, I was also ready to help, but the master has not moved, we think that the master does not disdain to do this kind of rough work.
The second uncle looked at me and said, "You want to do it too?" I nodded, "Okay, you stand in the back, you just move the bricks we unloaded back, I didn't expect that there was such an advanced tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it actually used the brick chamber tomb construction method that only appeared in the Western Han Dynasty." ”
"Brick chamber tombs?" I don't understand.
"This brick tomb is also what I usually know by looking at the archaeological books written by those experts, although we are digging for sand and fighting, it is convenient to master some professional knowledge, at least we know the type of tomb, this is not like we use the Liuyao Bagua Tomb Library to classify, but also divided into water and soil tombs, fire tombs, gold tombs, and wooden tombs. If you have to belong to this tomb in the tomb, you can only give it a tomb of water and soil. The second uncle explained eloquently.
At the same time as this explanation, work had begun to unload the wall, and the masonry used for this wall did not look very large, and the section it faced us was only a rectangle of a dozen square centimeters, not like the masonry used to seal the door.
Abu's chisel was about to be chiseled into the cracks of the bricks, I thought it would be okay to chisel like this, but I saw that the young master suddenly changed his expression, jumped over and kicked Abu's chisel away unreasonably, and after a few seconds Abu didn't come back to his senses, and looked at the hammer in his other hand blankly, the picture seemed to be frozen, plus Abu was a left-handed ruffian, this scene was even more funny.
"Master, you ......" Although the second uncle didn't understand what the master meant, but looking at the master's reaction, it meant that he didn't want us to remove this brick wall, and the second uncle had to let us all retreat, even my father didn't say a word, and obediently retreated, and then started when he understood what the master meant.
But when we retreated, the master walked alone in front of the brick wall, only to see that he was expressionless, inserted his finger into the crack of the brick, and easily pulled out a brick.
"How much painful forging does that finger power have to go through!" When my father saw the master pull out the masonry with his fingers, he couldn't help but sigh, but he was not very surprised, which made me admire the master even more, and at the same time there was another layer of doubt in my heart, and immediately quietly asked my father, who is the master, but my father only said that he had told me before, as for the things before the master knew my grandfather, my father didn't know anything.
My father and I just returned our eyes to the place where the master pulled out the masonry, and the master also retreated to our position after pulling out the masonry, but his retreat was quite handsome, and it was like a bounce back, but he was so anxious to retreat as if he was afraid of the things in the gap between the masonry and stone.
I saw that the masonry was pumped out of the gap and continued to spray out a silvery-white shiny liquid, and when it splashed on the ground, the evaporated gas continued to rise, and I think that if we had just chiseled it directly, we might have been submerged by the silver-white liquid by now.